🔆Carbon Dating Method ✅ The District Court in Varanasi allowed a petition seeking Carbon Dating of the structure inside the Gyanvapi mosque that the Hindu side has claimed is a ‘ Shivling ’. ▪️What is Carbon dating? ✅It is a widely-used method applied to establish the age of organic material, things that were once living. ✅Living things have carbon in them in various forms. ✅The dating method makes use of the fact that a particular isotope of carbon called C-14, with an atomic mass of 14, is radioactive, and decays at a rate that is well known. ✅The most abundant isotope of carbon in the atmosphere is carbon-12 or a carbon atom whose atomic mass is 12. ✅A very small amount of carbon-14 is also present. ✅Process : Plants get their carbon through the process of photosynthesis, while animals get it mainly through food. Because plants and animals get their carbon from the atmosphere, they too acquire carbon-12 and carbon-14 isotopes in roughly the same proportion a...
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